Jenna Bush Hager Biography
Jenna Bush is a model and actress. Hager is a journalist, author, and news personality from the United States. She is presently the co-host of Today with Hoda & Jenna, NBC’s morning news show Today’s fourth hour. Hager and her twin sister, Barbara, are the children of former First Lady Laura Bush and 43rd President George W. Bush. Following her father’s presidency, Hager went on to become an author, an editor-at-large for Southern Living magazine, and an NBC television personality, most notably as a correspondent, contributor, and co-host on The Today Show.
Jenna Bush Hager Age
Hager is 40 years old as of 2021. She was born on 25 November 1981 in Dallas, Texas, United States.
Jenna Bush Hager Height
Hager stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m).
Jenna Bush Hager Family
Jenna Hawkins Welch was Hager’s maternal grandmother, and she was born at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. She and her sister went to Preston Hollow Elementary School and later The Hockaday School while residing in Dallas. Bush began attending St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in 1994 after her father was elected Governor of Texas and the family relocated to Austin, Texas. She graduated from Austin High School in 2000.
Jenna Bush Hager Husband/ Wedding
During the 2004 presidential campaign, Bush met Henry Chase Hager. In August of 2007, they got engaged. Hager sought permission from President Bush to marry his daughter before proposing. When the two appeared together at a White House dinner for The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall in November 2005, their relationship became public. Henry Hager is a graduate of St. Christopher’s School in Richmond, Virginia, and the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. He worked as a White House aide for Karl Rove and as a U.S. Department of Commerce aide for Carlos Gutierrez.
He is the son of John H. Hager, the former Virginia Republican Party Chairman who also served as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and as an Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of Education under George W. Bush. The wedding took place on May 10, 2008, at her parents’ Prairie Chapel Ranch outside Crawford, Texas, in a private ceremony. Henry Hager and Jenna Hager are the parents of three children. Hager, unlike the majority of her relatives (but like her twin sister Barbara), is not a Republican.
Jenna Bush Hager Education
Hager attended the University of Texas at Austin and took summer school at New York University after her father was elected President in 2001. Her mother’s sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, had inducted her as a legacy member.
Jenna Bush Hager Sister
Jenna and her sister Barbara made national headlines while they were there when they were both arrested on alcohol-related crimes twice in five weeks: Jenna was charged with a misdemeanor for possession of alcohol under the age of 21 in Austin on April 29, 2001. Jenna was charged with another misdemeanor on May 29, 2001: attempting to purchase alcohol with a phony ID (with the name “Barbara Pierce,” her paternal grandmother’s maiden name). Both charges were dismissed after she entered a no-contest plea. Jenna Bush earned her bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004.
Jenna Bush Hager NBC News
Jenna has been a correspondent, Today contributor, and anchor for NBC News since 2009. NBC hired Hager as a journalist and contributor for The Today Show in August 2009. Hager’s role on Today has grown over time, including sitting in as the orange room anchor from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and substituting for Kathie Lee Gifford or Hoda Kotb during the fourth hour. Michelle Obama was interviewed by her in 2018 about her time in the White House, the difficulties of parenting her daughters in the spotlight, and her book Becoming.
They also discussed the political climate and bipartisanship, with Obama describing Hager’s father, George W. Bush, as a “wonderful, hilarious, kind, kind man” despite their political differences. Hager launched Read with Jenna, a monthly book club on the Today Show, in March 2019. Following Kathie Lee Gifford’s departure, Hager began co-anchoring the fourth hour of Today with Hoda Kotb in April 2019. Hager secured a first-look deal with Universal Studio Group in February 2022.
Jenna Bush Hager Books
With the help of Washington attorney Robert B. Barnett, Hager began selling a book proposal in 2007. Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope is the title of the book, which covers her experiences working with UNICEF-sponsored charities in Latin America, including visits to drought-stricken Paraguay in 2006 while interning for the UN Children’s Fund. HarperCollins announced the book’s publication in March 2007, and it was launched on September 28, 2007, with a first printing of 500,000 copies. Her portion of the revenues will go to UNICEF, with the remaining going to the woman whose life is the inspiration for the book, to help her continue her education.
Hager went on The Ellen DeGeneres Show during the book tour, and during the interview, she called her parents. Hager collaborated with her mother on a second book aimed at encouraging children to read. The book, titled Read All About It!, was released by HarperCollins on April 22, 2008. Hager was named editor-at-large of Southern Living magazine on November 26, 2012.
Jenna Bush Hager Salary
Hager earns an annual salary of $4 Million.
Jenna Bush Hager Net Worth
Hager has an estimated net worth of $10 Million.
Jenna Bush Hager Teaching
Hager worked as a teacher’s aide at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School for a year and a half until departing Washington, D.C. in summer 2006. As part of an internship for UNICEF’s Educational Policy Department in Latin America, notably Panama, she took a leave of absence from her charter school job to work at a shelter. Hager returned to her job as a teacher at a charter school in Washington, D.C. after her UNICEF internship. She currently works part-time as a reading coordinator at the SEED Public Charter School in Baltimore, Maryland, and she also contributes a monthly education news report to the Today show.
Jenna Bush Hager 2004 Election
In 2000, she and her sister Barbara implored their father not to run for president: “Oh, how I wish you wouldn’t flee. It will have a significant impact on our lives.” Her father insisted that he and her mother get on with their lives. She and Barbara decided to get active in the 2004 campaign in the winter of 2003. She made media appearances over the summer of 2004 prior to the election in response to this decision.
She and her sister appeared in public together on multiple occasions, including giving a statement at the Republican National Convention on August 31, 2004. When she was photographed sticking her tongue out to media photographers during a campaign stop in St. Louis, she made headlines. Jenna and Barbara took turns traveling to swing states with their father and also appeared in Vogue for a seven-page interview and photo shoot. Barbara and Jenna built a friendship with John Kerry’s daughters, Alexandra and Vanessa, who campaigned for their father, Kerry, according to Jenna.
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